Verkhovna Rada of Crimea or the Supreme Council of Crimea, officially the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,[a] was the acting Ukrainian legislative body for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea before the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.
Verkhovna Rada of Crimea
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Type | |
Type | |
History | |
Founded | 19 June 1991 |
Disbanded | 15 March 2014 |
Preceded by | Crimean Regional Council |
Succeeded by | State Council of Crimea |
Seats | 100 |
Elections | |
Last election | 2010 |
Meeting place | |
Building of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Simferopol | |
Website | |
https://www.rada.crimea.ua/ (archived) | |
Constitution | |
Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea |
The last election of parliament took place on 31 October 2010 (see 2010 Crimean parliamentary election) and was won by the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.
On 27 February 2014, unidentified armed men took over the parliament and hoist the flag of Russia over it. On 15 March 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially dissolved the parliament.[1] On 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea,[2] a puppet State Council of Crimea was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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Party-list | Constituency | Total | ||||||
Party of Regions | 357,030 | 50.44 | 32 | 48 | 80 | |||
Communist Party of Ukraine | 54,172 | 7.65 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||
Qurultai-Rukh | 51,253 | 7.24 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||
Soyuz | 38,514 | 5.44 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
Russian Unity | 29,343 | 4.15 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
Strong Ukraine | 26,515 | 3.75 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||
Batkivshchyna | 19,589 | 2.77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine | 12,614 | 1.78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Party of Pensioners of Ukraine | 11,133 | 1.57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Front for Change | 8,281 | 1.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party | 7,268 | 1.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's Party | 4,563 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Socialist Party of Ukraine | 2,909 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Party of Greens of Ukraine | 2,493 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
All-Ukrainian Party "Children of War" | 2,030 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Justice Party | 1,822 | 0.26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Greens | 1,699 | 0.24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Peasant Party of Ukraine | 1,396 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Motherland | 1,395 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Svoboda | 1,361 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
New Politics | 1,291 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
United Centre | 1,278 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ukrainian Social Democratic Party | 1,240 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Union of Left Forces | 1,177 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ukrainian People's Party | 1,114 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Agrarian Party of Ukraine | 980 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's Power Party | 934 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
New Generation Party | 904 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Socialist Ukraine | 878 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) | 803 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
People's Labor Union of Ukraine | 745 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" | 743 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists | 702 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic Party of Ukraine | 625 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine | 624 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Hromada | 452 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
European Party of Ukraine | 432 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Against all | 57,552 | 8.13 | – | – | – | |||
Total | 707,854 | 100.00 | 50 | 50 | 50 | |||
Valid votes | 707,854 | 97.01 | ||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 21,794 | 2.99 | ||||||
Total votes | 729,648 | 100.00 | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,522,000 | 47.94 | ||||||
Source: Government of Crimea |
Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)
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Total | Vacant | |||||||||
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Party of Regions | Qurultai-Rukh | Soyuz | Russian Unity | Communists | Strong Ukraine | Non-affiliated | |||||
End of previous convocation | 44 | 8 | 10 | DNP | 9 | DNP | DNP | 100 | 0 | ||
Begin | 80 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | - | 100 | 0 | ||
February 20, 2013[3] | 80 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | 100 | 3 | ||
November 27, 2013[4] | 82 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | 3 | 100 | 1 | ||
Latest voting share | 82.0% | 4.0% | 4.0% | 3.0% | 3.0% | N/A | 3.0% | ||||
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